[witrak]

If you substitute subliminal messaging with any other technique allowing:

- to influence human behavior, - to prevent an effective countermeasure, - to be controlled by a single issuer, you - use in a selective or mass scale mode against a freely selected population,

then you have an equivalent recipe without SF flavor, because the same analysis shows that humanity cannot defend itself.

Of course, you can ignore existing social media and some cybercrime threats... unless they get included in the military weapons arsenals.